Phones In class should not be allowed!

Grades in Swedish school is drastically dropping. Why you might wonder? I know the biggest reasons why and if you can counter argument I will bow and applaud.

Almost all students here in Sweden own a phone in all kinds of color and shapes. Phones might seem like a smart thing but it makes us blind of our surrounding. Especially In the classrooms! It’s like cigarettes, we get addicted. Teenagers almost always check their phones for new Instagram post or new twitter retweets. Just because they enter the classroom it doesn’t makes them stop.

Students don’t care as much any longer as they once used to do.

I know from own experience It’s hard not to pick up the phone when its lying next to the math book just waiting to get picked up. I won’t only blame the students for this. I think it’s the teacher’s responsibility to make us study and focus in class as well.

What to do? Collect the phones before they enter the classroom! It’s the only way out. Then someone probably will say “I study better with music” well then let them have the phone but if they pick it up and start surfing on it first give a warning and if they repeat the action give them non-attendance.

It’s proven that students get better grades! For example a British website called The Guardian says that “Effect of ban on phones adds up to equivalent of extra week of classes over a pupil’s school year”

Teacher’s nowadays are to humble!

Another example is if a student chit chat the only act the teacher will do is to “sssh” them and get zero results. What about the other kids in the classroom that maybe wants to study? Do as they did before, kick them out. Give them a lesson. We are too passive and too scared to be stricter. It’s simply idiotic.